Started the morning late was meeting Luis at 8:00 am where he then takes me to breakfast. We have a couple of coffees and some fruit juice and then a couple of toasted sandwiches in a little cafe connected to the side of a petrol station, by the number of people here clearly a local favourite.

Main purpose of the day is to learn by the end of the day how to get on and off the horse, without requiring the use of steps.

I started the day by first doing some lunging (http://www.wikihow.com/Lunge-a-Horse) this really involved trying to teach the horse how to go from walking to trot to canter. After doing this for a while it was then my turn to get on the horse.

Luis started me off slowly then got me trotting again which was still quite unnerving and painful, really need to learn to raise and fall with the horse. After several attempts managed I at last managed to get it better finally going around using no hands.

This afternoon went for a nice ride in the country for a couple of hours, did a little trotting, and going up and down some hills.